Victorian romanticism: I can't remember where I picked her up. Whoever she is, she should definitely consider a great domain name from Namecheap.com.

November 12, 2018: My collection of Japanese representations of the Madonna and Child (see the banner below) is from a series of Christmas cards sent to me by Father Peter Milward, SJ, during the late 1970s. I had known him in Tokyo during the 1960s-1970s, at a time I was flirting with Catholicism. Previous blog posts are here. – Alan Ireland, adilbookz (at) yahoo.com

India in the 1700s-1800s: Scenes from Cassel's Illustrated History of India, Vol. I, by James Grant, published in 1876. Click here to view the gallery. (The above picture shows a girl performing the "egg dance". Click it to see it in full size.)